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The popular legend on the etymology of hot dog holds that a cartoonist named T.A. Tad Dorgan attended a polo match in New York in 1901 where vendors roamed the aisles imploring patrons to get your red-hot dachshund sausages.. Enchanted, Dorgan drew a smiling dachshund nestled in a long bun, but couldn't spell dachshund, so he captioned it hot dog! and thus the food got its name.
It's said that the frankfurter was developed there in 1487, five years before Christopher Columbus set sail for the new world. The people of Vienna (Wien), Austria, point to the term wiener to prove their claim as the birthplace of the hot dog.